page_title: Textile design
section_title: Mixed Media Textile Design
hierarchical_section_title: Textile design / Textile Design Disciplines / Mixed Media Textile Design
caption_attribution_description: A traditional Kazakh rug I bought when I lived in Mongolia.
context_page_description: Textile geometry is the creative and technical process by which thread or yarn fibers are woven together or interlaced to form a flexible, functional, and decorative cloth or fabric which is subsequently printed upon or otherwise adorned. Textile design is further broken down into three major disciplines, printed textile design, woven textile design, and mixed media textile design, each of which utilize different methods to produce a surface ornamented fabric for variable uses and markets. Textile Design as a practice has evolved to become an industry integral to other disciplines such as fashion, interior design, and fine arts.
context_section_description: Mixed media textiles designs are produced utilizing embroidery or other various fabric manipulation processes such as pleating, appliqué, quilting, and laser cutting.
  Embroidery is traditionally performed by hand, applying myriad stitches of thread to construct designs and patterns on the textile surface. Similar to printed textile design, embroidery affords the designer a vast amount of artistic and aesthetic control. Typical stitches include but are not limited to the cross stitch, the chain stitch, and couching.  Although industrial and mechanized embroidery has become the standard, hand stitching still remains a fixture for fine arts textiles.
  Quilting, traditionally used to enhance the insulation and warmth of a textile, also provides the designer the opportunity to apply aesthetic properties. Most commonly quilts feature geometric and collage designs formed from a various textiles of different textures and colors. Quilting also frequently employs the use of recycled scrap or heirloom fabrics. Quilts are also often used as medium for an artist to depict a personal or communal narrative: for example, the Hmong people have a tradition of creating story quilts or cloths illustrating their experiences with immigration to the United States from Eastern and Southeastern Asia.
caption: Mixed media textile design: An embroidered Kazakh, chain stitched  rug.
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